Definitions for paternities

paternities pa·ter·ni·ty

Spelling: [puh-tur-ni-tee]
IPA: /pəˈtɜr nɪ ti/

Paternities is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 1074 anagrams from letters in paternities (aeeiinprstt).

Definitions for paternities

noun

  1. the state of being a father; fatherhood.
  2. derivation or acquirement from a father.
  3. origin or authorship.

adjective

  1. noting or pertaining to a legal dispute in which an unwed mother accuses a man of being the father of her child:

Origin of paternities

1400-50; late Middle English paternite Late Latin paternitās. See paternal, -ity

Examples for paternities

In 2010, the ‘Good Wife’ star received some shocking news about his paternity.

This recognized family rights when paternity is established, whether a child was born in or out of wedlock.

Certainly paid paternity leave is part of it (and in the U.S., we need paid maternity and paternity leave).

I won my paternity right, when I was but twenty-eight, just about your age.

One got paternity last year already, and he is not as good a man as I am.

Though all the world forget, your paternity should remember me.

She refused to take a paternity test, and was eventually convicted of extortion and sentenced to 22 months in prison.

A man can no more create a paternity than he can make a new planet.

Some seventy-plus countries currently offer some paternity leave or parental leave days reserved for the father.

Hence they are of one paternity, though not of one maternity.

Word Value for paternities
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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